Faculty

Arpi Terzian, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor of the School of Health Professions

BA, Brown UniversityMPH, Emory University Rollins School of Public HealthPhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Description

Dr. Terzian is an Assistant Professor at LIU’s School of Health Professions, with a dual appointment in the BS Health Sciences and MPH programs where she teaches research and epidemiology. Dr. Terzian is an epidemiologist with research interests in HIV/AIDS, women’s health, substance use, and health disparities. She also serves as Senior Analyst at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (NYC DOHMH) Care, Treatment and Housing Program where she assesses HIV-related medical care outcomes for HIV-infected New Yorkers participating in HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), programs providing housing and social services to persons living with AIDS or clinical symptomatic HIV illness and their families. Prior to her position at LIU and at NYC DOHMH’s Care, Treatment and Housing, Dr. Terzian served as Assistant Director and Senior Analyst at NYC DOHMH’s HIV Epidemiology and Field Services Program (HEFSP). At HEFSP, she conducted complex longitudinal analyses on repeated measurements using HIV-related laboratory surveillance data and geospatial analyses on persons newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.